The Doctrine of Repentance (Puritan Paperbacks)

by Thomas Watson

Till this is done, God will accept none of your services. Do not think the holiness of the altar will privilege you; your praying and hearing are in vain till you have appeased your brother's anger by confessing your fault to him.

Blushing is the colour of virtue. When the heart has been made black with sin, grace makes the face red with blushing:

Reminds me of childhood!!!

If Christ's blood were not at the sinner's heart, there would not so much blood come in the face.

but when he had deflowered his soul by sin, then he was ashamed. Sin has tainted our blood. We are guilty of high treason against the Crown of heaven. This may cause a holy modesty and blushing.

Oh the silver drops that have fallen on us! We have had the finest of the wheat; we have been fed with angels' food. The golden oil of divine blessing has run down on us from the head of our heavenly Aaron. And to abuse the kindness of so good a God, how may this make us ashamed!

The goodness of our God makes our sin that much more heinous.

To contract the disease of pride and luxury from the perfume of God's mercy, how unworthy is it; to requite evil for good, to kick against our feeder

to make an arrow of God's mercies and shoot at him, to wound him with his own blessing! I horrid ingratitude! Will not this dye our faces a deep scarlet?

Sin has made us naked, and that may breed shame. Sin has stripped us of our white linen of holiness. It has made us naked and deformed in God's eye, which may cause blushing. When Hanun had abused David's servants and cut off their garments so that their nakedness did appear, the text says, 'the men were greatly ashamed' (2 Sam. 10.5).